Over at ABC News they are reporting on the latest spew from that bastion of conservative thinking, Jeb Bush. Ok, so let me see if I get this straight. According to Jeb the GOP is too conservative, it needs to raise taxes and we need to go back to amnesty. Did I miss something?
“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad, they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party, and I don’t, as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,” Bush said, according to Buzzfeed, which reported Bush’s giving the comments at the headquarters of Bloomberg LP in New York City.
Bush, a much-discussed contender to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, said he sees the ultra-conservative and partisan standards of today’s GOP as “disturbing,” but called “this dysfunction … temporary.”
Bush said there needs to be a “realistic way of dealing with people that are here illegally,” and although he “may have a different point of view on that [from Romney], I think I probably do,” he “respect(s) his views.”
He also strayed from his party when he testified on Capitol Hill two weeks ago when he said he could accept tax hikes to go along with spending cuts to solve the nation’s deficit problems.
